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The Joe Rogan Experience
So in the beginning like when I first met you today rather when I ran into you
First thing I was like are you still on cloud nine? Like what is this like?
Like you you know, it was Matt Sarah and GSP that was like the biggest upset
ever in the history of sport
Right, but this is like I think this is there or bigger. It might be bigger
Yeah, I mean I that wasn't my era. I'm in the new generation. Yeah, this is my
era
So of course to me, it's it's the biggest but it was huge because Amanda was
Terrifying like everybody was scared of her and you were the one that wasn't
scared of her
Yeah, no, you can't be you're fighting like I know but it's still it's like it's
the way you did it
Yeah was so wild like while I was that like
Because you were counting me out the whole time no I'm laughing because DC sent
me a text and in the video
You're very very
DC sent me a text and it was a video of me and him doing commentary on your
fight. He goes bro. He goes listen to us
We're just making weird noises because during the fight
He's screaming like a little girl. It was wild. Yeah, it was fucking wild
You know when you were standing toe-to-toe with her and smashing her with the
jab in the middle of the octagon
We were like gripping each other. We were like, oh shit. Oh shit
You can't describe
What that's like to watch because it's like you can't it's hard to believe that
it's happening
I felt like if you had a chance to beat her it would be in a scramble you would
catch her and submit her
In a grapple exchange wear her down and submit her yeah, but to see you
standing in the middle of octagon and smashing her with a jab
It was like
It was crazy. It was so wild to see it was almost like the world changed. Yeah,
but the whole world changed like what is not possible is now possible
Yes, well, there's there's two things first is
There's styles. We've already talked about that styles makes fights, but I knew
stylistically that I have the perfect
uh style of fighting to beat her and because there's for example
I'm not the type to run around the ring the whole time and do the point sparring
thing and go to decision
It's like one of us is coming out of here, and that's it
That's just the way that my fighting style is I'm the type where it's like if
there's a big puncher
The only way to meet that is meet fire with fire and I have to stand in the
pocket
So I'm not the type of person to run away from in the fight
I'm the type of person to meet that fire head-on right and match it with my own
fire
And I knew that that was how I was going to win and so that's pretty much all I
did is just
game plan that specific type of you're gonna be in the pocket you're going to
have to meet this fire and
You absolutely cannot shy away from it. Well, you said it leading up to the
fight that you're gonna drown her. Yeah, I
Mean I've been calling for this fight for five years. Everyone's like this girl's
talking all this crap
You know she's this and she's that and getting upset at me like but I've been
calling for this fight since I won
Kat Zingano at UFC 200 she beat Misha that night
I beat Kat Kat had just recently beat her and in the press conference Amanda
saying
That I'm next and then Rhonda got to cut the line and you know
Rhonda had just got knocked out by Holly Holm and instead of her you know
having to fight somebody else
She got an immediate title shot and she got to cut the line and I was like that
was my fight
She's the champ said that I was next and so Rhonda came in she got knocked out
and then I
You know I got put to the back of the line again
But I was constantly saying even when Rhonda was champ and I won the ultimate
fighter
I kept saying I want to fight Rhonda
I want to fight Rhonda and they wouldn't they wouldn't give me that fight
But the fact that she knocked out Rhonda helped your fight it really did when
you finally got her yeah
Because she's a legend by that true because before then she was super dangerous
Everybody was very aware that Amanda was like super fucking dangerous and a
vicious knockout artist
But beating Rhonda the way she did put her on the world map right when she
knocked her out in 48 seconds
Everybody's like holy fuck right, you know and
Your your fight with her was bigger because of all the delays
Like it because she achieved this goat status six years. Yeah, she's been unbeaten
It's just knocking knocking people out for like the last six years
So the fact that she knocked out cyborg like that too incredible, right? And
then you just stood right in the fucking pocket. Yeah
I know and that's great is if I can get people emotionally invested in me
Whether it's in my successes or in my losses whatever it is as long as you're
watching and as long as you're
You know gripping your seat at the end of your seat and freaking out
I want to invoke that emotion in people and that's why I love fighting I think
is because you know
Whether you're invested in the loss of the success you're you're watching and
you're like feeling some type of way and your heart's
You know going through your throat and and to get that reaction from people and
to see the you know
Outpour of people reaching out to me and how I made them feel it was like it
almost made me feel guilty in a sense
I'm like really yeah, my dad lost 15 pounds like this guy's throwing up, you
know people are like putting you know that's this guy's like putting
You know pissed off that they lost all this money, you know, and then there's
people that are like super happy
But like the emotions of like people close to me is seeing how much I put them
through I'm like
I'm sorry I did that to you guys, you know, like it makes me feel bad, you know,
I'm like, oh, man
I'm really putting these people through the ringer like I feel I feel guilty,
you know, it's hilarious
Listen, they're all invested now. Yeah, you know after that fight everybody's
invested. Yeah, that was one of the best fights I've ever seen
Thank you in terms of like
Like what do you want out of a fight? You want to you you want to be completely
immersed in the world goes away
All you're thinking about is what's happening right in front of you and because
of your effort
Because of what you accomplished that night you change the way people think
about what's possible and not possible
That's everything we want from a fight everything you were the underdog you
came in
You were counted out by so many people you fought the greatest of all time and
you fucked her up
Yeah, and the way you did it like the whole world
Everybody that watched that was like holy shit. The world is a different place
now
Yeah
It just goes to show you how strong the mind is and how you know, it's gonna
sound corny
But my mom always used to tell me you can do anything you set your mind to what
is next?
Do you think a rematch is next? Absolutely. Yeah, there's still naysayers out
there
There's still people that think it was a fluke. There's still people that are
harassing me
There's still people that are like being like she's gonna kill you, you know,
they were like 10 seconds and you're dead, you know
And so I I just I would love nothing more than to to put the naysayers to bed
for one last time
Oh, yeah. Yeah now have you guys started discussing when and if that can happen?
Yes, um and you know in my mind in a perfect world july 4th
Yeah
July 4th, right?
Yes. Yes. Yes. I totally would love to fight in Vegas. It's the biggest card
Um in my mind, uh, I would always want I've always wanted to anyway since I was
on the ultimate fighter
I would love to coach the ultimate fighter. I just
You know the last time that we were supposed to coach before this fight. She
she decided not to do it
And and so i'm just trying to coax her into doing it, you know, like come on
let's coach the ultimate fighter
And then we'll fight in july. It'll be perfect. You know, that would be great
Yeah, so that in a perfect world
That's how it would be for me
But I would anticipate sometime in the summer for the rematch the ultimate
fighter. What kind of a commitment is that it's like a six-week commitment
Yes
Something like that. I it's it is like a six-week commitment
So you just live in vegas for six weeks. Yeah bring your kid. Yeah train there
and then coach people. Yeah
Now um
That is always like traditionally been a way that people have been able to like
get rivalries really cooking
Yeah, because then you're next to each other all the time for six weeks. It
just bubbles up. Yeah
What do you think that's going to be like being around her for six weeks?
You know, it's not a personal thing
It's not like I have anything against her personally. I think that she's great,
you know, um
And if I were to be on the show, I can pretty much guarantee you i'm not going
to be pulling any shenanigans
If she pulled the shenanigans then it's on you know what I mean, but like i'm
not out to you know be vicious or malicious or anything like that
um
But again, like I said like if I get pushed in that direction, that's a
different story
But yeah, it's i've seen like I think the conor mcgregor one where he was like
poking at uriah is just
Hilarious epic like well, how about when ronda was on with misha?
Beater in a competition gives her the fingers like so angry. Oh, yeah
And I was right there next to her when they were at the red rock and misha's
like
She's like you can't even throw punches and ronda's like she stormed off so
angry
She went and got edmund and they came back and like I thought they were gonna
throw down right then and there literally like it was it was awkward
Well, you get to see
Sides of people's personality when you had to see them on these exchanges with
each other right remember
Rashad evans and rampage yes, and like you a bitch treat me like a bitch you're
a bitch treat me like a bitch like like
face to face with each other yeah, like
Several seconds saying that yeah, or even like vonderlay and and shell son. Oh,
that's a classic. Yeah, they straight up fought
Yeah, that's a classic. I I would hope you know that that wouldn't be the case,
you know
Like let's be adults about this, but then it that's the flip side. It's like we're
trying to sell the fight, right?
We're trying to make people invested in and make sure that they watch the fight
So it's like how can it be, you know this epic season of the ultimate fighter
without that kind of chaos
But it's like a man is not that kind of person and I'm not either
Yeah, I don't think it has to be that way
The fight is gonna be giant no matter what right when you guys have a rematch
Holy shit god, it better be in north america the other thing that was
interesting about that fight was her last two fights before that megan anderson
and cyborg
What was it megan anderson cyber with that? Were they back to back?
I think so in the 45 division. Yeah, yeah, so both of our fights were at 45. Mm-hmm
Like she hadn't defended 35 in quite a while two years. Yeah, so
The making that extra 10 pounds
It's probably a big deal
Like she looked very lean at the weigh-ins like leaner than you ever see her
before lean and she showed up all half naked
And she was ready to go. She was in the best shape of her life. It looked like
she looked ripped
She looks yeah, she looks ripped
But you know oftentimes when people haven't cut weight. Yeah, and then they
have to yeah, you know
And that you see like, uh, there's a difference in like way your body bounces
back from that
Yeah, well her focus in her camp was two fights
I got to make weight and then I got to worry about juliana
My focus was all I have to do is worry about amanda. That's it
That was my only fight that was my sole focus her sole focus is I got to be
miserable for the next three months because I got to make
Weight and make sure that i'm you know up to par and me i've been grinding the
whole time
So it was like all I got to focus on is just her and everybody was aware of the
kayla fight
Everybody was aware that kayla was in the audience
Yeah, they were trying to set that fight up and how dare they right because
Kayla is like talking about how she's training partners with amanda and how she
learns
so much from amanda and how amazing amanda is as a training partner and how
um, you know
She has just learned so much from the champ and so i'm so confused because you
want amanda to win so that you can fight your friend
Well, they just want to get paid. Yeah, well, she's getting paid millie. She's
getting paid more than I am at the
Uh making the millions over there at the pfl
I think the idea was that and i'm just guessing that amanda you know when this
Worldwide recognition is the greatest women fighter of all time and then you
get if she beat you
Then you get this giant super fight with this olympic judo medalist who seems
like you know when you look at kayla
She seems like a threat like you go. Okay. Well amanda's is like super strong
Like really good grappler knockout puncher
kayla is such an
Elite judoka she's so good and she's so fucking strong
You they go like that could be a giant super fight. Yeah, I think they probably
thought if she came over to the ufc
They would have like the biggest female fight of all time. Yeah. Well, I really
messed that up
Who needs friends with who needs enemies with friends like these, you know,
especially with kayla and amanda being like training partners
And like hugging each other and and now they're gonna fight each other like
come on like it's ridiculous
But if kayla wants to come over to the ufc and make weight let's let pack your
lunch
35 35 45 whatever you guys want to do you fighter at 45?
Yeah
I mean all I can say like we already established if it don't make money it don't
make sense
And what's the job of a fighter especially with the window being this small and
your opportunity being this small?
I got to jump through a window this little
Yeah, my job is to make as much money as possible right so pay me i'll fight
whoever you all fight fade or
Pay me
Just pay me
I hear you, you know
I feel like i'm not asking for too much especially now that i'm a champion
I've been saving my silver bullets this entire time and now that I got it
It's like I want to get is that too much to ask. I mean as a professional
Yeah, don't you feel like you should of course there's flip side. No one's
holding a gun up to your head
No, one's making you fight. No, but i'm a professional. Yeah, you know, and i'm
at the height of my game
I'm the champion i'm at the top of my league, you know pay me also you have a
child you have a future
You know you have a window of opportunity with fighting that doesn't last very
long
I mean, it's one of the smallest windows of opportunity for an elite
professional athlete
I gotta hold on to this little chunk of money that I have for the rest of my
life, you know
And it's like what do you I feel like i'm not asking for too much. You know
what?
I mean, I just want what's fair
I think if you beat amanda again at 35, excuse me
When yes at 35 and then you fight her for the 45 pound title. Yes, that would
be crazy
That would be like bullying. Yeah. Well, somebody suggested well, what if she?
Uh doesn't decide to take the fight with you and decides to take an easier
fight at 45 and retires off into the sunset
Like she can't she can't do that. She would look like the biggest coward on
earth
Sometimes people just get worn out by the pressure to though. That's it. That's
a factor
How hard is it to go do your road work when you're waking up in silk pajamas
every morning?
It's marvin haggler, you know, he's another guy who walked away in his prime.
Yeah, good for marvin good for marvin
But I mean, it's got to be difficult. You're sitting on 10 mil in the bank. It's
it's the motivation is just not there

Julianna Pena on Beating Amanda Nunes

The Joe Rogan Experience
So in the beginning like when I first met you today rather when I ran into you
First thing I was like are you still on cloud nine? Like what is this like?
Like you you know, it was Matt Sarah and GSP that was like the biggest upset
ever in the history of sport
Right, but this is like I think this is there or bigger. It might be bigger
Yeah, I mean I that wasn't my era. I'm in the new generation. Yeah, this is my
era
So of course to me, it's it's the biggest but it was huge because Amanda was
Terrifying like everybody was scared of her and you were the one that wasn't
scared of her
Yeah, no, you can't be you're fighting like I know but it's still it's like it's
the way you did it
Yeah was so wild like while I was that like
Because you were counting me out the whole time no I'm laughing because DC sent
me a text and in the video
You're very very
DC sent me a text and it was a video of me and him doing commentary on your
fight. He goes bro. He goes listen to us
We're just making weird noises because during the fight
He's screaming like a little girl. It was wild. Yeah, it was fucking wild
You know when you were standing toe-to-toe with her and smashing her with the
jab in the middle of the octagon
We were like gripping each other. We were like, oh shit. Oh shit
You can't describe
What that's like to watch because it's like you can't it's hard to believe that
it's happening
I felt like if you had a chance to beat her it would be in a scramble you would
catch her and submit her
In a grapple exchange wear her down and submit her yeah, but to see you
standing in the middle of octagon and smashing her with a jab
It was like
It was crazy. It was so wild to see it was almost like the world changed. Yeah,
but the whole world changed like what is not possible is now possible
Yes, well, there's there's two things first is
There's styles. We've already talked about that styles makes fights, but I knew
stylistically that I have the perfect
uh style of fighting to beat her and because there's for example
I'm not the type to run around the ring the whole time and do the point sparring
thing and go to decision
It's like one of us is coming out of here, and that's it
That's just the way that my fighting style is I'm the type where it's like if
there's a big puncher
The only way to meet that is meet fire with fire and I have to stand in the
pocket
So I'm not the type of person to run away from in the fight
I'm the type of person to meet that fire head-on right and match it with my own
fire
And I knew that that was how I was going to win and so that's pretty much all I
did is just
game plan that specific type of you're gonna be in the pocket you're going to
have to meet this fire and
You absolutely cannot shy away from it. Well, you said it leading up to the
fight that you're gonna drown her. Yeah, I
Mean I've been calling for this fight for five years. Everyone's like this girl's
talking all this crap
You know she's this and she's that and getting upset at me like but I've been
calling for this fight since I won
Kat Zingano at UFC 200 she beat Misha that night
I beat Kat Kat had just recently beat her and in the press conference Amanda
saying
That I'm next and then Rhonda got to cut the line and you know
Rhonda had just got knocked out by Holly Holm and instead of her you know
having to fight somebody else
She got an immediate title shot and she got to cut the line and I was like that
was my fight
She's the champ said that I was next and so Rhonda came in she got knocked out
and then I
You know I got put to the back of the line again
But I was constantly saying even when Rhonda was champ and I won the ultimate
fighter
I kept saying I want to fight Rhonda
I want to fight Rhonda and they wouldn't they wouldn't give me that fight
But the fact that she knocked out Rhonda helped your fight it really did when
you finally got her yeah
Because she's a legend by that true because before then she was super dangerous
Everybody was very aware that Amanda was like super fucking dangerous and a
vicious knockout artist
But beating Rhonda the way she did put her on the world map right when she
knocked her out in 48 seconds
Everybody's like holy fuck right, you know and
Your your fight with her was bigger because of all the delays
Like it because she achieved this goat status six years. Yeah, she's been unbeaten
It's just knocking knocking people out for like the last six years
So the fact that she knocked out cyborg like that too incredible, right? And
then you just stood right in the fucking pocket. Yeah
I know and that's great is if I can get people emotionally invested in me
Whether it's in my successes or in my losses whatever it is as long as you're
watching and as long as you're
You know gripping your seat at the end of your seat and freaking out
I want to invoke that emotion in people and that's why I love fighting I think
is because you know
Whether you're invested in the loss of the success you're you're watching and
you're like feeling some type of way and your heart's
You know going through your throat and and to get that reaction from people and
to see the you know
Outpour of people reaching out to me and how I made them feel it was like it
almost made me feel guilty in a sense
I'm like really yeah, my dad lost 15 pounds like this guy's throwing up, you
know people are like putting you know that's this guy's like putting
You know pissed off that they lost all this money, you know, and then there's
people that are like super happy
But like the emotions of like people close to me is seeing how much I put them
through I'm like
I'm sorry I did that to you guys, you know, like it makes me feel bad, you know,
I'm like, oh, man
I'm really putting these people through the ringer like I feel I feel guilty,
you know, it's hilarious
Listen, they're all invested now. Yeah, you know after that fight everybody's
invested. Yeah, that was one of the best fights I've ever seen
Thank you in terms of like
Like what do you want out of a fight? You want to you you want to be completely
immersed in the world goes away
All you're thinking about is what's happening right in front of you and because
of your effort
Because of what you accomplished that night you change the way people think
about what's possible and not possible
That's everything we want from a fight everything you were the underdog you
came in
You were counted out by so many people you fought the greatest of all time and
you fucked her up
Yeah, and the way you did it like the whole world
Everybody that watched that was like holy shit. The world is a different place
now
Yeah
It just goes to show you how strong the mind is and how you know, it's gonna
sound corny
But my mom always used to tell me you can do anything you set your mind to what
is next?
Do you think a rematch is next? Absolutely. Yeah, there's still naysayers out
there
There's still people that think it was a fluke. There's still people that are
harassing me
There's still people that are like being like she's gonna kill you, you know,
they were like 10 seconds and you're dead, you know
And so I I just I would love nothing more than to to put the naysayers to bed
for one last time
Oh, yeah. Yeah now have you guys started discussing when and if that can happen?
Yes, um and you know in my mind in a perfect world july 4th
Yeah
July 4th, right?
Yes. Yes. Yes. I totally would love to fight in Vegas. It's the biggest card
Um in my mind, uh, I would always want I've always wanted to anyway since I was
on the ultimate fighter
I would love to coach the ultimate fighter. I just
You know the last time that we were supposed to coach before this fight. She
she decided not to do it
And and so i'm just trying to coax her into doing it, you know, like come on
let's coach the ultimate fighter
And then we'll fight in july. It'll be perfect. You know, that would be great
Yeah, so that in a perfect world
That's how it would be for me
But I would anticipate sometime in the summer for the rematch the ultimate
fighter. What kind of a commitment is that it's like a six-week commitment
Yes
Something like that. I it's it is like a six-week commitment
So you just live in vegas for six weeks. Yeah bring your kid. Yeah train there
and then coach people. Yeah
Now um
That is always like traditionally been a way that people have been able to like
get rivalries really cooking
Yeah, because then you're next to each other all the time for six weeks. It
just bubbles up. Yeah
What do you think that's going to be like being around her for six weeks?
You know, it's not a personal thing
It's not like I have anything against her personally. I think that she's great,
you know, um
And if I were to be on the show, I can pretty much guarantee you i'm not going
to be pulling any shenanigans
If she pulled the shenanigans then it's on you know what I mean, but like i'm
not out to you know be vicious or malicious or anything like that
um
But again, like I said like if I get pushed in that direction, that's a
different story
But yeah, it's i've seen like I think the conor mcgregor one where he was like
poking at uriah is just
Hilarious epic like well, how about when ronda was on with misha?
Beater in a competition gives her the fingers like so angry. Oh, yeah
And I was right there next to her when they were at the red rock and misha's
like
She's like you can't even throw punches and ronda's like she stormed off so
angry
She went and got edmund and they came back and like I thought they were gonna
throw down right then and there literally like it was it was awkward
Well, you get to see
Sides of people's personality when you had to see them on these exchanges with
each other right remember
Rashad evans and rampage yes, and like you a bitch treat me like a bitch you're
a bitch treat me like a bitch like like
face to face with each other yeah, like
Several seconds saying that yeah, or even like vonderlay and and shell son. Oh,
that's a classic. Yeah, they straight up fought
Yeah, that's a classic. I I would hope you know that that wouldn't be the case,
you know
Like let's be adults about this, but then it that's the flip side. It's like we're
trying to sell the fight, right?
We're trying to make people invested in and make sure that they watch the fight
So it's like how can it be, you know this epic season of the ultimate fighter
without that kind of chaos
But it's like a man is not that kind of person and I'm not either
Yeah, I don't think it has to be that way
The fight is gonna be giant no matter what right when you guys have a rematch
Holy shit god, it better be in north america the other thing that was
interesting about that fight was her last two fights before that megan anderson
and cyborg
What was it megan anderson cyber with that? Were they back to back?
I think so in the 45 division. Yeah, yeah, so both of our fights were at 45. Mm-hmm
Like she hadn't defended 35 in quite a while two years. Yeah, so
The making that extra 10 pounds
It's probably a big deal
Like she looked very lean at the weigh-ins like leaner than you ever see her
before lean and she showed up all half naked
And she was ready to go. She was in the best shape of her life. It looked like
she looked ripped
She looks yeah, she looks ripped
But you know oftentimes when people haven't cut weight. Yeah, and then they
have to yeah, you know
And that you see like, uh, there's a difference in like way your body bounces
back from that
Yeah, well her focus in her camp was two fights
I got to make weight and then I got to worry about juliana
My focus was all I have to do is worry about amanda. That's it
That was my only fight that was my sole focus her sole focus is I got to be
miserable for the next three months because I got to make
Weight and make sure that i'm you know up to par and me i've been grinding the
whole time
So it was like all I got to focus on is just her and everybody was aware of the
kayla fight
Everybody was aware that kayla was in the a